Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self

In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's popular podcast and radio show
Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives.
Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. In this fascinating new audiobook, Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original thinking.

Drop Your Phone, Make Your Bed, Says Gretchen Rubin

It’s time to figure out how to be online in this post-election world. Note to self: listeners are wondering how we can stay well-informed without simultaneously bathing in a toxic stew. What do you do when going online makes you unhappy?

Here to help is Gretchen Rubin, author of mega-selling books that include The Happiness Project and Better Than Before. She's a researcher, a journalist, and host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin.

6 Algorithms That Can Improve Your Life

There's been a lot of negative press lately about algorithms (Facebook, Snapchat, the prison system). But this week we're exploring ways that mathematical and scientific algorithms can actually help improve how we live.

When To Stop Looking for a Better Date or Restaurant

Last week Brian Christian, co-author of the book "Algorithms to Live By," taught us how algorithms can optimize how we live. They can help explain that messy pile of papers on your desk, or why you sometimes have a brain fart.

Infomagical: BOOTCAMP

You haven't watched Lemonade all the way through yet, have you? Oh, you didn't notice the extra twist of the knife in Sunday's Game of Thrones? Yes, Hillary just became the presumptive nominee. Yes, we know you haven't been paying that much attention.

Bored and Brilliant: BOOT CAMP 2016

This time, with a special announcement: The Bored and Brilliant book is coming in 2017!!! Manoush is spending a ton of time sorting through your feedback, listening to your experiences and getting super bored in order to make this book exceptionally useful.